Areas of expertise & dedication

Allison offers a refined and integrative approach to therapy, for individuals and couples ages 18+ of all gender identities and sexual orientations.

Common themes of work with Allison include:

  • Expansion/contraction in life transitions

  • Re-storying identity and self-concept

  • Stepping towards relationship complexity and evolution

  • Resourcing in high-pressure careers

  • Nurturing the creative identity

  • Rest and resilience through grief, loss and death

Clinical language that may feel connected to these themes:

  • Trauma/ Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

  • Body image concerns, disordered eating and/or exercise dependence

  • Anxiety, Depression, Mood Disorders

  • Rigidity, perseveration and compulsion/Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

  • Perfectionism

But why can’t the language for creativity be the language of regeneration?
— Ocean Vuong

Guidance through life transition

Therapy isn’t a guided path toward normalcy, nor a simplified “solution.” It’s a creative encounter with the depth of our lived experiences where the goal is not to eradicate our pain but to expand our capacity to soothe it. Easier said than done when that pain is a strained marriage, impending divorce, fertility struggles, career pressure, health challenges or death of a loved one.

I offer a space where clients can explore these moments not as self-limiting detours from their preferred paths, but as valuable opportunities in their evolving story where judgment is not truncating their meaning making. Our work centers on understanding these experiences deeply through a prismatic lens rather than a fixed perspective. This process offers a more expansive and accurate view.

What once felt inextricably tied to self-your grief, regret, relational rupture or intellectual stasis, is not you. Slowly, they emerge as distinct forces, stories framed around you, which can be named, observed, held at arm’s length and ultimately rewritten. Once our difficulties can be viewed as external, space is created for resistance and transformation where there was prior helplessness.

Alongside narrative reclamation, you’ll navigate the existential themes inherent to these life events-freedom, responsibility, mortality, isolation, and meaning as living dilemmas that call forth choice, revision, and poetic recommitment to your own authorship. In creating distance from shame and constriction, you reclaim curiosity; in tracing patterns with fresh eyes, you recover relational clarity; with practiced embodiment, you reclaim presence beyond temporary biohacking and tool seeking.


Support for the creative identity

The struggles that follow creatives into therapy are real and specific: the inner critic speaking in your own voice, the paralysis that arrives alongside the most meaningful projects, the grief of feeling perpetually adjacent to the work you most want to make. Together we explore what lives beneath those patterns.

Therapy tailored for creatives honors your long-standing sense of difference. The life of a person who moves through the world with artistic sensitivity often brings its own particular wounds: inspiration and burnout cycling without warning, perfectionism crowding out flow, a critical voice insisting your achievements are luck, your craft inadequate, your success undeserved. These patterns often feel inevitable and fixed. They are not.

They can evolve through careful inquiry and support. By identifying moments where you've acted contrary to the dominant problem-saturated story we uncover instances of agency and resilience that have previously been overshadowed. This process of re-authoring your story empowers you to reclaim not only your generative creative voice but also the grounded sense of Self from which creative voice can be heard.